| Home for Christmas | ||||
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| Released | October 6, 1992 | |||
| Recorded | September 1992 | |||
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| Genre | Christmas music, pop | |||
| Length | 42:31 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Brown Bannister, Ronn Huff | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Home for Christmas is the tenth studio album by Christian music and pop music singer Amy Grant, released on October 6, 1992. It is Grant's second holiday album, the first being 1983's A Christmas Album .
Coming off the heels of Grant's successful 1991 album, Heart in Motion , Home for Christmas performed even better than Heart in Motion on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Christian album chart. It was later reissued in 2003 as 20th Century Masters – The Christmas Collection: The Best of Amy Grant.
On November 17, 1997, Home for Christmas was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States. [2]
As of November 2014, Home for Christmas is the eighteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,540,000 copies according to SoundScan. [3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin | 2:36 |
| 2. | "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" | Edward Pola, George Wyle | 2:26 |
| 3. | "Joy to the World/For Unto Us a Child Is Born" | George Frideric Handel, Isaac Watts | 2:33 |
| 4. | "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" | Amy Grant, Chris Eaton | 5:29 |
| 5. | "O Come All Ye Faithful" | John Francis Wade | 3:01 |
| 6. | "Grown-Up Christmas List" | David Foster, Linda Thompson, additional lyrics by Amy Grant | 5:00 |
| 7. | "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" | Johnny Marks | 2:07 |
| 8. | "Winter Wonderland" | Felix Bernard, Dick Smith | 2:17 |
| 9. | "I'll Be Home for Christmas" | Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram | 3:27 |
| 10. | "The Night Before Christmas" | Carly Simon | 3:52 |
| 11. | "Emmanuel, God With Us" | Grant, Eaton, Robert Marshall | 4:56 |
| 12. | "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Instrumental)" | Johann Sebastian Bach | 4:47 |
Production
| Chart (1992–2020) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200 [4] | 2 |
| US Christian Albums (Billboard) [5] | 1 |
| US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard) [6] | 1 |
| Chart (1993) | Position |
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| US Billboard 200 [7] | 58 |
| Country | Sales | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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| Canada (CRIA) | 50,000 | Gold |
| United States (RIAA) | 3,000,000 | Platinum (3x) |
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